Medical fridges contracts
UK public sector · 80 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026
Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count
- Contracts awarded
- 80
- Last 12 months
- Median contract
- £32k
- Recorded value
- Recorded value
- £8.2m
- 78 of 79 main-service contracts have a published value
- Buyers
- 35
- Suppliers
- 41
30 medical fridges contracts ending in the next 12 months
See which ones
BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned
What stands out
- The five suppliers that won the most medical fridges contracts took 39% of them (31 of 80).
- The median contract, £32k, is 70% below the median across healthcare contracts (£106k).
- South West had the most contracts: 15, or 19% of the total.
Who buys medical fridges
By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1UK Health Security Agency10 contracts£658k
- 2UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)9 contracts£239k
- 3Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust6 contracts£101k
- 4NHS Blood and Transplant4 contracts£4.3m
- 5NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership4 contracts£225k
- 6Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA)3 contracts£372k
- 7University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts£105k
- 8University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts£95k
- 9Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts£75k
- 10Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts£48k
Top medical fridges contractors by contracts won
The 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Checkit9 contracts£366k
- 2PHC Europe B.V.7 contracts£90k
- 3JTF Wireless Limited6 contracts£510k
- 4Wolflabs5 contracts£716k
- 5LABCOLD LIMITED4 contracts£146k
- 6Kelsius Ltd4 contracts£115k
- 7Thames Cryogenics Limited3 contracts£102k
- 8Planer Ltd2 contracts£459k
- 9Haier Biomedical2 contracts£349k
- 10T-SCAN LIMITED2 contracts£147k
Latest and largest awards
Each links to the official notice.
Latest
NHS Blood and Transplant to Fluke · Awarded 2 October 2026
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to JTF Wireless Limited · Awarded 30 September 2026
UK Health Security Agency to Wolflabs · Awarded 28 September 2026
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust to Acquisition System Ltd · Awarded 25 September 2026
Centre for Process Innovation to Thermo Fisher Scientific · Awarded 25 September 2026
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) to Haier Biomedical · Awarded 23 September 2026
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust to JTF Wireless Limited · Awarded 18 September 2026
UK Health Security Agency to Thames Cryogenics Limited · Awarded 8 September 2026
University of Exeter to Checkit · Awarded 3 September 2026
University of Exeter to Checkit · Awarded 27 August 2026
Largest
NHS Blood and Transplant to Thames Cryogenics Limited · Awarded 30 November 2025
NHS Blood and Transplant to Planer Ltd · Awarded 17 February 2026
Supply of Upright Freezer for storage of clinical products. (official notice, opens in a new tab)
£337k
NHS Blood and Transplant to Haier Biomedical · Awarded 5 February 2026
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to VWR International · Awarded 7 October 2025
Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) to Wolflabs · Awarded 20 February 2026
Contracts awarded by quarter
Where the contracts were awarded
England 71 · Wales 7 · Scotland 2
What is included
Medical, pharmacy and vaccine fridges, laboratory fridges and freezers, ultra-low and controlled rate freezers and cryogenic storage vessels, bought or rented, with temperature monitoring, maintenance and calibration.
- Laboratory fridges and ultra-low freezers
- Controlled rate freezers
- Cryogenic storage vessels
- Temperature loggers and their calibration
- Medical and pharmacy fridges
- Fridge rental
- Continuous temperature monitoring for medicines
What is not included
- Mortuary refrigeration (hlt.equip.mortuary-equipment)
- Incubators (hlt.lab.general-laboratory-equipment)
- Sample tubes (hlt.lab.consumables-labware-chemicals)
- Catering refrigeration and cold rooms (cat.equip.kitchen-refrigeration)
- Vaccine storage and distribution services (hlt.pharm.pharmaceutical-wholesale-distribution)